Leslie Frost

Teaching Associate Professor

2000 PhD English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bio

In Dreaming America (2013) Leslie Frost traces how the tumultuous politics of the late 1930s shaped the stories and stagings of Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939) children’s plays that participated in Popular Front culture. In 2016, Frost adapted and produced an80th anniversary staged reading of the Federal Theatre Project’s It Can’t Happen Here at Historic Playmakers Theatre at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently working on a project centered on New Deal U.S. Post Office murals.

Publications:

Dreaming America: Popular Front Ideals an Aesthetics in Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2013)

Faculty Type

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